Development and application of streaming media courseware based on XML

Streaming media technology just appears to solute the question that multimedia transport on narrowband. Streaming media has the advantage of playing with transporting and small size, so it can be stored easily and has normal playing effect in diversified network transport cases. Especially when the playing time is long, the superiority is embodied satisfying. So the courseware made with the system has preferable playing effect on network through applying streaming media in this courseware making system. XML has 4 characters of Well Storage format, extensibility, well-formed structure and be fit for transport on network, so it becomes new Web language. In recent year, XML is applied in e-commerce, distance education and so on. SMIL is the criteria put forward by W3C and it is the applying of XML. SMIL has the advantages of realizing the concurrency and the precise positioning of multimedia, editing easily, supporting the hyperlink, and economizing network bandwidth.